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Amely 2022-03-27 09:01:22

"Ninth Commando" has a lot of shadows of war movies, because they are all war movies. But it has its own unique style because it is a Russian war movie. Until now, my favorite war movie is still the Russian war movie "Purgatory", which is rough in production, rough in picture, and very similar to a documentary, but the content is quite shocking. Just imagine, how much can the movie restore the real scene? Imagine the brutality of the real battlefield. "The Ninth Commando" still shows the unique image quality of Russian war movies, like American war movies, but it is not entertaining enough, but the movie makes people want to cry. The thinking is in very simple and crude shots. It shows that the Russians' understanding of war is like understanding Reba, gradually approaching the bone marrow.

At the beginning of the movie, one thing worth paying attention to is the very hot image, the desert is steamed by the sun, and the color of the picture is adjusted to a very high color temperature. After that, I turned to the perspective of a new recruit, and then the training in the military camp was no different from normal. I just didn't expect that the foreshadowing was so long, just for the final destruction to be very thorough. Also noticed a scene where the officers who were training them were frustrated because they couldn't go to the battlefield, and were injured in a field of flowers. It's very interesting to see, such a rough soldier in such a beautiful flower, the idea is really good. The first thing that came to my mind was "Tigers in the heart, sniffing roses." Under the sturdy appearance, the delicate and nowhere emotions are expressed in such a sea of ​​flowers, so "rude"!

The best place that the film expresses is the state of ordinary soldiers born with flesh and blood, who have clear love and hate, under the cold-blooded bullets and mortars. In our history textbooks, the war between the Soviet Union and Afghanistan was an invasion war, and the Soviet Union was gaining ground with the United States. But all just wars, unjust wars, and wars are fought by human beings, and it is not the machines that die, but the living people. The death of the last soldier in "The Ninth Commando" is not like in our country's anti-Japanese drama, slow motion sensational, death is death, which allows you to think. When he turned around and shouted "enemy attack", he was shot in the head. Pulling the grenade, the first expression is not patriotic roar, but fear, fear of death. Or they were shot to death, and there were no special shots. No matter who they were, it didn’t matter, and the deaths were all equal. And the shots of the rocket launchers in the movie are so awesome. The explosion of Maoziwan was really strong, and it directly leveled a small village, causing the fire to rage into the sky. In the end, the mortar bombing of the positional warfare was intensive, and the visual effect was still very strong.

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9th Company quotes

  • [from trailer]

    Hohol: This is war! They don't put low grades here! They kill!

  • Lyutyy: We were leaving Afghanistan. We, the 9th company, we won our war. Back then we didn't know many things. We didn't know that, two years later, the country we had fought for would vanish. That wearing medals of a nonexistent country would become unfashionable.